Improvement in corset-springs



OATHARINE JUDSON, OF BOSTON, MASSAGHUSETTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 173,124, dated February8, 1876; application filed December 30, 1875. v

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GATHARINE JUDsoN,'of Boston, in the county ofSuffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and valuableImprovement in Corsets; and I do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear,

and exact description thereof, reference being" had to the accompanyingdrawing, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

My invention relates particularly to that portion of a corset known asthe clasp or.

spring, and is intended to prevent the breaking of the steel or busk atthat portion where breakage is most likely to occurviz., at the partnear the natural waistby means of an additional short supporting-steel,fixed immovably upon the wide steel or busk at two points, one above andthe other below the waist or center of the busk, and having its endsfree. e

I am aware that inventions have been patented which include additionalstrengtheningsteels, unfastened or fastened at the center to i the mainsteel. The advantage which my steel, fastened at the two points abovenamed, has over steels unfastened or fastened at their centers to thebusk is, that between the points of fastening, the steels being keptstift' by the fastenings, help to support each other, while, if theywere fastened merely at the center, the additional strength would onlybe the strength of an unaided steel, even then weakened by the fasteningprocess. I e

In the accompanying illustration, Figure 1 is a view of a corset-claspembodying my invention. The clasp is represented as being unfastened,and a portion of the cloth of the corset is attached to the upperportion of the clasp. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the clasp whenfastened. 1

of the steels a b, but is a short steel,-placed where it is mostneeded-i. 0., near the center of the clasp-steels, at the natural waist,where the steels are bent and strained the most. This steel is notprovided with any clasping devices, and is solely a strengthener, madeas economically and as small as possible. The ends d of the steel d areleft free, while from c to ethe steel dis stiff and immovable. It liesin the same pocket as the steel a.

It will thus be seen that the clasp is strengtlrened by a steel fixed atpoints each side the waist or center, which is small, economical, takinglittle room, and placed where it will do the most good.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire tosecure by'Letters Patent, isv s v j In a corset clasp or spring, thecombination, with the busk a, of the short strengtheningsteel (1, saidsteel 11 being fastened or fixed to the said busk upon each side of thatportion next the natural waist, or each side the center of the busk, andhaving its ends free, as and for the'purpose herein specified.

OATHARINE Jonson.

Witnesses:

Mrs. N.- G. GIBBS,

HENRY W. WILLIAMs.

